It's a New Year!

It's been a long time since the last update, but that's because there were a few slow weeks in the renovation efforts. Between Thanksgiving, wedding number 2 in Isla Mujeres and then Christmas we haven't been going at full speed like we started. However, as soon as we got back from the wedding we got busy with the plumbing (by "we" I mean the boys) and us girls have sanded and painted the cabinets, and they are looking so great! We chose a beautiful vanilla ice cream color, and we are done with the first coat on everything. We also have our counter tops ready to finish. They are made from salvaged barn wood from a barn that was about 150 years old and was torn down like a 100 years ago, so we have the most amazing OLD walnut counter tops you've ever seen! We are so excited!!! Those were made during our little Christmas break and we picked them up yesterday!

We have also made progress with picking out stuff, we have a super awesome old harvest table for the dining room and new chairs, we also picked out tile for the kitchen floors, a white cast iron sink, brushed nickel faucet and brushed stainless hardware for the cabinets. And got a garbage disposal for Christmas!

As far as the bathroom goes the toilet and sink are not in place yet, but the toilet has been fully restored to its 1936 state! and we'll be putting it in as soon as the plumbing is further along. Turns out we are doing the whole thing! New sewer, new plumbing in the kitchen and bathroom, and leaving things ready to do more work for when we decide to do the bathroom upstairs!

We also bought a really cool pedestal sink and nice hardware to go with it and located the right tile to match the existing wall tile so we can continue it all the way to the ceiling when we put in a shower (the house is that old... no shower, just a tub).

Lots of work to be done still... probably not moving in for a while... but we did spend our first night of the new year camping out with our sleeping bags in the living room and received 2010 in our own house! It was cool, however a day later the furnace went out and we found out it was leaking carbon monoxide and found 2 dead birds in the exhaust tubes (which were rusted all the way through). But no worries, we are alive and well, we did not see any ghosts and "we" have already fixed the furnace, replaced the rusted tubes and have one more cool story to add to our repertoire! All I can say is, it is awesome to have a husband and father in law who can do everything, fix everything, and if they can't they always figure it out.

Thank you GC!

Pictures will come... AND HERE THEY ARE!

(just realized my camera has the date WAY OFF! these were not taken in 2006...ha!)